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Mentioning the name "Ma Li",
The first thing that many people think of may be the happy twisted Ma Li, after all, she is popular and is a Chinese billion-dollar box office actress.
But the Ma Li we are talking about today is not this Ma Li, but Ma Li, who was born in the sixties, and although they have the same name, their life experiences are completely different.
After the 80s, Ma Li's road to fame was extremely bumpy, and she was also very unhappy emotionally, and she didn't meet true love until she was 36 years old.
After 60, Ma Li walked relatively flat, she got married as soon as she graduated, and gave birth to a son with her husband for more than 30 years, and the family of three was happy;
In terms of career, she is now a national first-class actor, has participated in more than 100 film and television dramas, and created many classic roles on the screen, such as Princess Gaoyang in "Wu Zetian";
The heroine Hu Die in "Queen Hu Butterfly", Mi Lan in "Spicy Female Soldier" and so on.
Today we want to talk about Ma Li, a national first-class actor, whose original dream was not to be an actress.
So how did she embark on the road of acting, and how did she meet her husband and maintain the secret of affection?
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Ma Li was born in Beijing in March 1966, the third eldest in the family, with two older sisters and a younger brother below.
When Ma Li was 5 years old, she was sent to rural Shanxi with her parents, and although life was difficult, Ma Li spent a happy childhood there.
Ma Li's original dream was not to be an actress, but to be an athlete and win glory for the country.
Young Ma Li with young father
Ma Li has been beautiful since she was a child, she perfectly inherited her father's appearance and height, and she smiled and had a sweet dimple on her left face, which was very likable.
At the age of eight, Ma Li was admitted to a sports school because of her height and long legs and focused on race walking.
Going to sports school is very hard, but Ma Li is not afraid of hardship and fatigue, she is depressed that she cannot study cultural classes like normal children, and can only study majors in the stadium.
And Ma Li doesn't just want to be a machine that can exercise, she wants to go hand in hand with culture and style to become an excellent female athlete.
But the conditions in the place at that time were limited and could not meet her needs, so Ma Li often complained to her mother:
It's remote and backward, and I want to go back to Beijing.
After listening to her, my mother replied to her without raising her head: "Do you want to go back to Beijing?" Go back with your own skills! ”
Originally, the cultural results were not good, how to go back to Beijing? This was a big test for Ma Li, and since then she has not mentioned returning to Beijing, but has concentrated on practicing race walking.
But life is always full of variables, and you never know whether tomorrow will surprise you or an accident.
Just when Ma Li was determined to become a race walker, an accident involving a motorcycle crashing into a large truck disqualified her.
In fact, this is also a thankful thing, you want to hit a big truck on a motorcycle, her life hangs in the balance, and she luckily picked up a small life.
But for Ma Li, she was still very depressed in the face of a confused future, and that period was the lowest time in her life.
But the most important thing at the moment is to rest and recuperate, and after resting at home for a while, Ma Li began to pursue a new life.
Because she went to a sports school since she was a child, she still has a good psychological quality, coupled with her already lively personality, 17-year-old Ma Li was hired to work as a physical education teacher in an elementary school.
With the children every day, the innocent happiness in them infects Ma Li, in their eyes, Ma Li is also an amiable and tall and beautiful "child king", and they spent a happy time together.
But only her mother understood Ma Li, and she could see that she was not happy.
Ma Li with her mother
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Have pity on the hearts of the parents of the world.
When a mother always wants her child to have a happy life, watching her daughter sullen, the mother tries to communicate with her daughter.
Once she said to Ma Li: "Beijing's universities are not only Tsinghua University and Peking University; There are also Beijing Film Academy, Central Academy of Drama, these two schools have low cultural scores, if you still want to go back. ”
After Ma Li listened to her mother's words, she was stunned: "Is my mother so open-minded?" She asked herself in her heart.
Then she asked her mother: "I don't know anything about literature and art, why do you let me go to art college?" ”
"Aren't you bold, thick-skinned, talk crosstalk, and act in sketches!" Mom replied to her.
Listening to her mother's words, Ma Li was empowered, anyway, there is no way back, it is better to give it a go, so she passed all the way with "boldness and thick skin" and passed the three rounds of exams in Chinese opera.
In 1988, Ma Li successfully entered the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama, and finally returned to Beijing as she wished.
Ma Li's mother is a smart and thoughtful woman, she is happy and proud of her daughter's admission to Chinese opera, and at the same time she is a little worried about her future life.
Because she clearly knows that not everyone can do an actor, what else can she do if her daughter can't become an actor?
So she asked Ma Li to go to school and learn business with her father, and she was willing to provide her with the first money to open a company.
Ma Li didn't understand her mother's intentions very well, and she told her directly: "Only when a woman is financially independent can she polish her eyes and find a good man." ”
Ma Mu is really not a simple woman, she has her own set of methods for facing the education of her children, and influences them by example, no wonder Ma Li's brothers and sisters are quite capable.
At the suggestion of her mother, Ma Li consulted her father about business while studying, not only did her academic performance well, but her business also flourished.
At the same time, Ma Li also starred in some film and television dramas.
In 1990, Ma Li participated in TV series for the first time, playing the role of Feng Kena in "Sister Row", and played Lin Na in "The Curious Case Has Not Ended" in 1992.
In the same year, Ma Li graduated from Chinese opera and was assigned to work in China Youth Art, but she gave up.
She chose to go to Singapore to do foreign trade business with her family, during which she also created many classic female images, Princess Gaoyang in "Wu Zetian", Luo Bing in "Book of Swords and Revenge", and Shangguan Yunxiu in "Happy Man Without Trouble".
Perhaps unable to put down acting, after two years of business, Ma Li restarted her acting career in a comprehensive way.
In 1995, in the TV series "Queen Hu Die", Ma Li was the protagonist, playing Hu Die, one of the best actresses in China in the forties.
When she was young, Ma Li was called Ma Mei, and more importantly, her plays were also good, especially a pair of eyes was enough to conquer the audience.
In the following ten years, Ma Li starred in dozens of film and television dramas such as "In fact, men are the hardest", "Blue Trembling", "Outstanding Siege", "Marriage within a Time Limit", "Can't Stop", "Xiangfu Chunqiu", "Hunting", "Romantic Girl", "Daqing Ti Criminal Officer", "Women Don't Cry" and so on.
In these plays, Ma Li has created a series of different female images throughout the ages.
and has successively won the China TV Golden Eagle Award for Excellence in Long TV Drama and the third prize with "Outstanding Siege" and "Xiangfu Spring and Autumn", and Ma Li's acting skills have been recognized.
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Ma Li has a good image and superb acting skills, and often conveys what the character wants to show to the audience through her eyes.
Even in supporting roles, she can make people shine.
In 2012, in "Spicy Female Soldier", Ma Li's role of "Mi Lan" was praised by the audience as "the most temperamental female chief", and with this role, she circled another wave of fans.
Earlier, Ma Li said in an interview that she wanted to shoot more military-themed dramas, and this time it was a dream fulfilled in "Spicy Female Soldier".
In the play, Colonel Mi Lan, played by Ma Li, is the mother of the heroine Tang Xiaomi, telling the story of a-for-tat "war" between their mother and daughter in the barracks, but the mother and daughter understand each other in getting along and eventually reconcile.
Ma Li's capable short hair in the play, coupled with a military uniform, highlights her unique side as a strong woman.
But when facing her daughter Tang Xiaomi, her eyes change every time, and there is more love and pride than sternness.
Therefore, the role of Milan was very successful and loved by the audience, and everyone sighed that this role was tailored for Ma Li.
This experience was also special for Ma Li.
Because as an actor, she doesn't want to limit herself to white-collar, aristocratic roles, this time playing a soldier, performing that kind of military temperament, let her have a good time, so she still hopes to play this kind of role, and even willing to be positioned by the audience as a role representative of a military professional.
It can be seen that Ma Li's military complex is very deep.
But perhaps because of age limitation, she later played mostly in the role of "mother", the high mother in "Life is Sleepless", Mrs. Wa in "Mrs. Wa", the second donkey lady in "The Story of the Two Donkeys in the Army", Zhu Baishi in "White Deer Plain", the soft mother in "He Confesses in the Backlight" and so on.
But for Ma Li, as long as it is a good role, she will play it.
And can use her superb acting skills to play the role space to the extreme, in "White Deer Plain", she has experienced three stages of old, middle and young, and played the role movingly, which makes people can't help but praise.
In her career, Ma Li died from her dream of being an athlete to finally entering Chinese opera, learning to do foreign trade business while studying.
After graduation, he went to Singapore to do business for two years and found that he still couldn't put down acting, so he came back to act wholeheartedly, and was admitted to the National Theatre of China with excellent grades.
So far, Ma Li has starred in hundreds of film and television dramas, created different types of female images, won the love of the industry and the audience, and is already a national first-class actor.
Emotionally, she has also gained satisfaction, and her career is inseparable from the support of the man behind her.
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As an actress, Ma Li married early, and she married in 1992 just after graduating from Chinese opera.
However, it is also because the other party is worthy of trust that she is willing to marry herself early.
Ma Li's husband is an outsider and also does business, and the two should have met in business.
Although she rarely shares information about each other, she revealed in an earlier interview that he is a straightforward and very optimistic Beijing man, and the two are in love and naturally together.
It is estimated that at that time, Ma Li chose to do business, and it was somewhat related to her husband, and then returning to the entertainment industry later was also his support and understanding.
To say, Ma Li's husband is really good, because when they got married, Ma Li's mother chose to follow her, and as a son-in-law, he gladly accepted.
But later, they dating, shopping, watching movies, eating, and his mother had to follow, and he never lost his temper, and he took care of their mother and daughter before and after the saddle, which shows his good temper.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this that their marriage can last for a long time.
Although Ma Li married early, she was late to become a mother.
At the age of 36, she was pregnant and gave birth to her son, and in the process she once soared to 180 pounds, but after giving birth to her son, she was just over the moon and was kicked out by her mother to film.
At that time, Ma Li still felt that her mother was ruthless and let herself go to film so quickly.
Later, Ma Mu told her that asking her to film was not to make her money, but to quickly change her back into a beautiful woman.
The horse mother is really a wise woman. 、
She doesn't know what to say everywhere, but she is wise everywhere, allowing her daughter to go wider and wider on the road of independent women, and it's no wonder that the woman Ma Li admires the most is her mother.
So during that time, Ma Li desperately lost weight in order to receive more dramas, and finally recovered to 110 pounds before giving birth.
Ma Li is a responsible mother, she is reluctant to put her son at home, she took him with her mother when filming, and later after her son went to school, she filmed as close to Beijing as possible, or accompanied him as much as possible during winter and summer vacations.
Today, her son is an adult, and he has also been admitted to the Central Academy of Drama to become an alumnus of his mother and has begun acting.
As a mother, Ma Li is genuinely proud of her son because he is a child who has dreams and is determined and willing to work hard for it.
With a loving career, a loving husband, and a proud son, Ma Li is now a winner in life, and now at 57 years old, she is in a really good state.
This should be brought to her by a successful career and a happy family, in addition to her self-discipline.
As mentioned earlier, Ma Li's original dream was to be a race walker, but an accident caused her to pass by this dream.
But the movement cells in the body are still there, don't look at her age now, her skating skills are still the same as thirty years ago.
There is also golf, which is also one of her passions and has won awards in tournaments.
Looking back on Ma Li's journey, from Beijing to being sent to rural Shanxi with her parents, and then returning to Beijing with her own efforts, from businessman to full-time actress, she never gave up her efforts and pursuits, and finally lived as she liked.
May everyone who is motivated also meet a better self and live the life you yearn for, come on.